{"id":1238,"date":"2011-02-08T09:38:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T17:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2024-12-25T16:31:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T00:31:42","slug":"suspended-chords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hearplaymain.wpenginepowered.com\/suspended-chords\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick &#038; Easy Way To Play Suspended Chords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Quick &#038; Easy Way To Play Suspended Chords<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/quartal-chords\">last week&#8217;s post<\/a>, I talked about quartal chords &#8212; which are chords built off fourth intervals.<\/p>\n<p>Examples are: C + F + Bb&#8230; or G + C + F<\/p>\n<p>(The interval between C and F is a fourth; likewise, the interval between F and Bb is a fourth. The same goes for the intervals between &#8220;G + C&#8221; and &#8220;C + F.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s an interesting discovery with <a href=\"https:\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox\/141e8f273f72a2%3A14dcc288eb46dc\/5650082896543744\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quartal chords<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox-714.js\"><\/script>.<\/p>\n<p>They are actually inverted suspended chords. Yup, suspended chords!<\/p>\n<p>(&#8230;which brings up another point. Music is filled with scales, chords, patterns, and theories that can be named different things&#8230; looked at from different perspectives&#8230; transformed to be different, etc.. Wayne Dyer says &#8220;<em>If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.&#8221;<\/em> This is especially true in music.)<\/p>\n<h1>Quartal Chords Are Inverted Suspended Chords<\/h1>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Remember, to invert something means to rearrange it so a different note is on the bottom. There are many ways to describe inversions but that&#8217;s the easiest I&#8217;ve found. When you&#8217;ve cycled through every inversion of a chord, every note has gotten its turn on the bottom. (There is something I&#8217;m dying to say to married couples on the topic of inversions but you figure it out!)<\/p>\n<p>So what happens when you invert a quartal chord? Let&#8217;s take the C+F+Bb quartal.<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/hearandplay.cc\/dynamic_image\/pianokeys.php?notes=C,F,Bb&#038;color=CCFFFF&#038;size=2' border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, let&#8217;s rearrange it:<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/hearandplay.cc\/dynamic_image\/pianokeys.php?notes=F,Bb,C&#038;color=CCFFFF&#038;size=2' border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>What do ya know&#8230; it&#8217;s a suspended 4 chord.<\/p>\n<h2>A Note About Suspended Chords<\/h2>\n<p>Suspended chords (aka &#8211; &#8220;sus&#8221; chords), and specifically sus4 chords (as there is a difference between sus4 and sus2 chords&#8230; more on this later), are basically <a href=\"https:\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox\/141e8f273f72a2%3A14dcc288eb46dc\/5650082896543744\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major chords<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox-714.js\"><\/script> with one modification.<\/p>\n<p>In a typical major chord, you&#8217;re playing the 1, 3, and 5. In C major, that&#8217;s C+E+G:<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/hearandplay.cc\/dynamic_image\/pianokeys.php?notes=C,E,G&#038;color=CCFFFF&#038;size=2' border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>Suspended chords replace the 3rd degree of the chord (which is E). So again, the target is the 3.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re getting rid of the 3 and putting another note in its place.<\/p>\n<p>The note we use depends on whether we want a &#8220;sus4&#8221; or a &#8220;sus2&#8221; chord.<\/p>\n<p>Sus4 chords use the 4th degree of the scale in place of the 3rd. So instead of C+E+G, you get <strong>C+F+G:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regular C major chord:<br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/hearandplay.cc\/dynamic_image\/pianokeys.php?notes=C,E,G&#038;color=CCFFFF&#038;size=2' border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>C sus4 chord:<br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/hearandplay.cc\/dynamic_image\/pianokeys.php?notes=C,F,G&#038;color=CCFFFF&#038;size=2' border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>Likewise, sus2 chords use the 2nd degree of the scale in place of the 3rd. So instead of C+E+G, you get C+D+G:<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/hearandplay.cc\/dynamic_image\/pianokeys.php?notes=C,D,G&#038;color=CCFFFF&#038;size=2' border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>I love to play <a href=\"https:\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox\/141e8f273f72a2%3A14dcc288eb46dc\/5650082896543744\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sus2 chords<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox-714.js\"><\/script> in slow, ballad-style songs. You&#8217;ll find they sound a lot better than plain major chords.<\/p>\n<p>And as the name &#8220;suspended&#8221; implies, when you play these chords, you get a feeling that something should soon resolve&#8230; something needs to change. Even the untrained non-musician ear hears this and anticipates something happening soon after. And in the case of the sus4, the &#8220;4th&#8221; degree is dying to resolve down to the 3&#8230; and usually it will.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Quartal &#038; Suspended Chords<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>So by simply inverting our C+F+Bb quartal chord, we got F+Bb+C, which is an Fsus4 chord.<\/p>\n<p>Regular F major chord:<br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/hearandplay.cc\/dynamic_image\/pianokeys.php?notes=F,A,C&#038;color=CCFFFF&#038;size=2' border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>F sus4 chord:<br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/hearandplay.cc\/dynamic_image\/pianokeys.php?notes=F,Bb,C&#038;color=CCFFFF&#038;size=2' border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>If you keep inverting, you&#8217;ll get yet another surprise:<\/p>\n<p><strong>C + F + Bb<\/strong> becomes <strong>F + Bb + C,<\/strong> which becomes <strong>Bb + C + F<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>What do ya know&#8230; a sus2 chord.<\/p>\n<p>Regular Bb major chord:<br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/hearandplay.cc\/dynamic_image\/pianokeys.php?notes=Bb,D,F&#038;color=CCFFFF&#038;size=2' border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>Bb sus2 chord:<br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/hearandplay.cc\/dynamic_image\/pianokeys.php?notes=Bb,C,F&#038;color=CCFFFF&#038;size=2' border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>So basically:<\/p>\n<p>1) In root position, a quartal chord is&#8230; umm&#8230; a quartal chord.<br \/>\n2) After inverting up once, you&#8217;ll get a <a href=\"https:\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox\/141e8f273f72a2%3A14dcc288eb46dc\/5650082896543744\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sus4 chord<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox-714.js\"><\/script>.<br \/>\n3) After inverting up once again, you&#8217;ll get a sus2 chord.<\/p>\n<p>One caveat: It won&#8217;t be the same sus4 and sus2. In other words, a quartal chord on C is not going to be a C sus4 and a C sus2. It&#8217;s going to be the sus4 of the second note in the original chord&#8230; and the sus2 of the last note in the original chord.<\/p>\n<p>So if original chord is C quartal:<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/hearandplay.cc\/dynamic_image\/pianokeys.php?notes=C,F,Bb&#038;color=CCFFFF&#038;size=2' border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>Root position gives you: C quartal<\/p>\n<p>Inverting once gives you: F sus4<\/p>\n<p>Inverting again gives you: Bb sus 2<\/p>\n<p>There you have it, a lesson on quartal and suspended chords and how they, as is much of music, are connected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/secondarydominant.jpg\" class=\"videopic\">In a post last week, I talked about quartal chords &#8212; which are chords built off fourth intervals.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s an interesting discovery with quartal chords. They are actually inverted suspended chords. Yup, suspended chords! 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